Classical Texts

Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of u...

Rome, from the beginning.Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC, where after years in Rome h...

Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader str...

Vysa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahbhrata and 'Vysa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuos...

A. A. Long presents fourteen essays on the themes of selfhood and rationality in ancient Greek philosophy. The discussion ranges over seven centuri...

Theodore Syncellus was a prominent member of the clergy in Constantinople in the 620s, being a close advisor to Patriarch Sergius. As such he was c...

This volume of newly commissioned essays marks a collaborative effort among scholars of ancient Greece and early China to investigate discourses of...

Marguerite Yourcenar is best known as the author of the 1951 novel Mémoires dHadrien, her recreation of the life of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The ...

An entrancing new telling of ancient Greek mythsThis book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.Alexander McCall Smith, ...

In den Thukydidesscholien mittelalterlicher griechischer Handschriften sind die Reste der wertvollen antiken und byzantischen Wort- und Texterkläru...